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Case officer · Waltham Forest Planning

Sarah Odu.

Last recorded decision Jun 2021 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Waltham Forest with an approval rate of 73% across 59 decided planning applications, spanning 9 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer59 decisions73% approvalSave
Waltham Forest · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
ShowingAll years · subscriber →across all years on record — a period re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
At a glanceEach metric links to the investigation behind it
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59
Applications
2020–21
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average

Not enough dated decisions for a trend yet.

What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate73% · 25th of 49
higher is betterdashed = London avg
Decision time— · publishes with decision notices
in development
Appeal overturn— · publishes with decision notices
in development
How this officer decides — from their own reports

Not filled in yet — this needs at least 20 of Sarah Odu's own officer reports parsed, and their reports haven't reached that threshold in the parsing run. It fills automatically as parsing progresses; nothing is estimated in its place.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies this officer cites most across their decisions — how often each appears, and whether refusals citing it survive appeal.

In development — policy citations are coded from officer reports, and that parsing hasn't run for Waltham Forest yet. Nothing is shown until it is real.

Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
9
63%
8
86%
7
83%
7
83%
7
60%
7
86%
5
60%
5
80%
4
33%
9
63%
8
86%
7
83%
Show all 9 rows
7
83%
7
60%
7
86%
5
60%
5
80%
4
33%

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–21.[1] Click the map above to focus this page on a ward, or a row to open the ward.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
211804
Householder Planning
Approved
2021-07-19
211665
Full Planning
Refused
2021-07-15
211804
Householder Planning
Approved
2021-07-19
211665
Full Planning
Refused
2021-07-15
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. EV Architects
2. Sole Concepts Limited
3. Tugby and Tugby Surveyors Ltd
4. Buchanan-Lacey Architects
At a glance
OfficerSarah Odu
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications59 (2020–21)
Approval rate73%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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The delegated share by borough and officer — where the real power over decisions sits.
Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Waltham Forest planning register and published decision notices, 2020–21. · methodology
  2. [2]Appeal overturn and decision-time benchmarks — Planning Inspectorate (PINS) appeal decisions and application date pairs; not yet computed per officer, shown as a dash until they are. · PINS appeals casework
  3. [3]Condition load — mean effective conditions attached to Waltham Forest decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
  4. [4]Policy citations will be coded from officer reports against the adopted Local Plan, London Plan and NPPF — that parsing has not run for this borough yet.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.